Bob Conners: Today's inequities have an impact on the future

6:27 PM,
Oct. 11, 2013

Bob Conners

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Bob Conners
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If you have listened carefully to President Obama's speeches over time on the topic of race in America, each follows a consistent pattern. He begins by extolling the gains made by America's historically disenfranchised minorities in the last 50 years but, in the end, he reminds us of the persisting legacy of historical racism and segregation: modern-day, race-based, economic inequality.

Most Americans will acknowledge the reality of inequality in America, but what does it mean to describe inequality as the "persisting legacy of segregation."